After simply over two years of improvement, on Sunday a brand new type of playing shall be launched to the Ethereum world on mainnet: hamster-powered marble races. 

Powered by Mia, a feminine djungarian or “winter white dwarf” hamster and her trusty hamster wheel, the mission, dubbed “Mia & the Marbles,” is an automatic marble-racing and playing platform from a gaggle of impartial builders. 

Whereas the idea behind the mission could seem… whimsical, in an interview with Cointelegraph the event crew for ‘M&M’ revealed how fastidiously the racing platform has been thought out.

“We assure races which can be provably truthful, provably dwell and easily-verifiable,” the devs mentioned. “We will assure that the races are going down in real-time and should not pre-recorded. We do that with our provably dwell video stream that exhibits the primary 8 bits of the present Ethereum blockhash bodily on the race monitor with 8 movable pegs. A excessive peg stands for a 1, a low peg for a 0.”

The crew says that there’s additionally a refund perform in place for races that don’t ship a sound final result after two days.

Whereas Mia & the Marbles could strike some as a thought experiment or hackathon moonshot come to life, the builders say M&M is impressed by a ardour for provably truthful playing. 

“We all the time cherished the thought of blockchain playing tasks. However sadly, scams should not unusual within the low-regulated crypto area,” the crew mentioned. “So we had been brainstorming concepts with the objective to make the provable equity element simple to grasp for anybody, whereas additionally being enjoyable on the identical time!”

As a coworker, the builders report that Mia is stellar. There was a tough patch at first — when she was a pup, Mia loved nibbling on devs’ fingers — however as of late she’s all the time prepared to supply. Whereas many protocols ruled by DAOs want to fret about incentive buildings and the chance that one other protocol may poach their expertise through merger, Mia fortunately runs in her wheel as much as 8 kilometers per day.

“Hamsters are very lively naturally and canopy large distances at evening to collect meals,” the dev crew defined.

Sooner or later, there shall be extra well-developed tracks and doable “championship” brackets for the marbles, and the builders in the end intend to maintain constructing in the direction of enjoyable, truthful video games on Ethereum.

“We strongly consider that including real-world randomness into crypto playing options can dramatically enhance the belief that gamers have into these merchandise. We need to contribute to a good world.“